LastPass Now Warns You When You’re Using a Weak or Duplicate Password

The latest update to the LastPass Chrome extension now warns you when you are logging in to an account with a weak or duplicate password. The new feature will help you be more proactive in updating insecure passwords to strong, unique ones generated by LastPass!

When you’re logging in to a site, LastPass will flag the password as “weak” if it detects that you received a score below 50% for that specific password in the LastPass Security Challenge. It will also flag the password as a “duplicate” if you are using the same password for another login stored in LastPass.

When a weak or duplicate password is detected, the LastPass icon turns yellow. Clicking the LastPass icon shows the warning, recommending that you update the password immediately.

Since you are now logged in to the account, you can navigate directly to the password change page for the site, and use LastPass to generate a new, strong password. If the “generate” notification doesn’t appear, you can always use the “Generate Password” function from the LastPass icon menu.

Once you’ve submitted the changes to the site, LastPass will also ask you to confirm the changes, and you’re done!

If for some reason you do not want to update the password for the site, you can choose to “disable” the alert so you are not prompted again. You can also disable alerts entirely if you do not wish to use this feature.

Remember, you can always re-run the LastPass Security Challenge to see a comprehensive analysis of your stored passwords – you can launch it from the new alerts directly, or you can open it from the Tools sub-menu in the LastPass icon.

The feature will soon be rolled out to other browsers, but is currently only available in Chrome. Most users should receive the update automatically when they restart their browser, but if a manual reinstall is needed you can do so from our download page.

What do you think of the new feature? Leave your feedback in the comments below!

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When you’re developing a website on 10-15 servers on your network, and continuously rebuilding databases/user accounts, using the same password on all of them is so much faster than keeping LastPass’s records up-to-date.

Unfortunately, the “ignore the duplicate warning for this site” option is broken and will not STFU. Very irritating.

I’m glad to see that others are bothered by this. I don’t mind LastPass’s telling me about weak/duplicate passwords, as long as the ability to turn off this warning works. Alas, it does not work. For months, people have been calling this to LastPass’s attention, and many have also offered compelling reasons for their using duplicative passwords, but the problem continues. Why doesn’t LastPass at least FIX the turn-off-warning option?

I would appreciate an actual “Last Pass” employee addressing this issue for us here :( There is NO WAY to permanently disable this new feature. It acts as malware when it forces itself upon us like this, very annoying!

Anyway to disable this yet? Great feature but very unnecessary for me as I use Last Pass for work and our dev environments are all local and all share the same pass. Due to internal security there is no need for use to have what Last Pass considers “secure” local passwords.

Nice feature in my opinion, but I wonder if it is possible to run a scan or report that identifies all sites where I have used the same password. I have quite a few logins and there are probably several old ones that are the same. The new feature points them out as I navigate to those sites but I’d like to see them all and spend the time to correct them all.Thank you.

The “security check” is the best way to do this – from your LastPass Icon menu click “Tools” then “Security Check”. Run the security check and then look at your results to see how many weak and duplicate passwords you are using.

I’m using your plugin on google-chrome in Linux. It works great for me. Thanks for a great app.

As for the yellow button, I would really like to turn it off. That’s because I’m using tens of testing accounts for websites we develop and yes I use insecure passwords for them. When I login into one, the button gets yellow. Then I gotta click it to try to see the message. But the message box sticks half open and there is no way seeing the message and disabling the feature.

As a temporarily workaround I’m clicking the app icon 3 times so that to skip that damn message that I can’t see and get straight to my passwords. This is very annoying and I’m dreaming about turning this off.

Please listen to us and add a way to turn this feature on and off in the next revision. That would be a great relief.

I know that I have a double password and I’m not going to change passwords on a safe 1000. The product SAFETY useful for geeks. I did not want to keep the notification of weak passwords. Every new launch Chrome and LastPass makes church have weak passwords. It can not be off. Bad Option!

This feature is fantastic!! I had a large backlog of duplicate passwords for accounts that existed before I started using LastPass and I was paralyzed at the thought of changing them all. This update helps me remember to change my passwords as I come across duplicates and gives me tremendous peace. :)

I’m having to turn it off every day. I have the “Keep local data only until I quit my browser checked and am wondering if that’s why it keeps nagging me over and over. I know some of my passwords are weak, but they’re for sites where security is unimportant to me so I have no desire to change them.

This new duplicate warning sucks because you haven’t done anything to handle the fact that some people have a single account stored in LDAP or something similar. I have seen people complaining about this on your forums since you launched the security check feature a while ago.

I have a single account for work, which is in an LDAP directory (AD). That account is used within Google apps, our 3rd party hosted helpdesk, our Intranet, and so on. In my case there are 16 separate FQDN that I use that set of credentials at. Of course just for variety, while the password is the same, the username comes in many varieties depending on the context. It could be `username`, `exampleusername`, `example.orgusername`, `username@example.org`, or `username@example.com`.

The oft repeated suggestion on your forums/support about the equivalent domains feature breaks more then it fixes.

Google.com is obviously not equivalent to my organizations intranet/extranet sites, and neither is many of the other 3rd party sites. I don’t want my personal Google accounts showing up in the list when I am logging into to my work Intranet.

You might try having just one “google” password but telling the system that gmail.com is the same domain (and anything else that SHOULD match). In the Vault, you go to Settings on the left and “Equivalent Domains” at the top. That also keeps them from going out of sync if you change one.

It, and the security check function, need a way to understand when multiple sites are using the same login credentials, not because I’m being lazy, but because they’re all linked to the same authentication back-end.

Sorry, but I turned it off. It repeatedly comes up on Google because the same password covers gmail and chrome’s syncing, so I told it to ignore this site. It didn’t. Then it told me I was duplicating tumblr with something else, which I wasn’t, so I just switched it off completely.

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